Answer this essay prompt: “Knowledge & Understanding: Living Philosophically”

The reading assignments and discussions for the later four weeks have covered Ethics, Religious thought, Epistemology (rationalism vs empiricism & the Kantian compromise), and the impact these ideas have had on 20th and 21st century philosophy.

Write a 5-6 page essay as an extensive comparison of these contributions to philosophy. Propose an argument with premises that leads to a conclusion about how the methods of rationalism and empiricism contribute to the understanding of Ethics, God, and Knowing and how these theories help in discussing how the human mind benefits.

This essay must be a thorough exploration of the ideas of philosophical method and reason within the Western philosophical tradition. The submission should show evidence of comprehension of course reading assignments and class discussion.

The essay should be 56 pages of well-thought, thoroughly researched, argument and conclusion and follow proper MLA format (including a Works Cited page).